Building For iOS and Android

Sep 1, 2021 | Development, Featured, Ideas

For app developers, it isn’t always apples and oranges –or, in this case, Apple or Android. There are similarities and differences between developing applications for iOS and Android. To help host Tyler Kern clarify them, Kern enlisted the expertise of two Shockoe...

How Android 12 Tackles Mobile Experience Personalization

May 26, 2021 | Development, Featured, Ideas

The goal of the mobile experience has always been personalization. From a software perspective down to the size of the phones themselves, one size fits all has never been the case. Fifty years from now, if phones still exist and the nanobots in our blood deem it...

Creating a Push Notification Server with Node.js

Jun 25, 2020 | Development, Ideas

At Shockoe we’re used to integrating our clients’ complicated backend systems into our apps, and this often includes push notifications. However, to get that initial proof that our app is playing nicely with GCM and APNS we’ll sometimes rig up a...

Droidcon Lisbon 2019: An Overview

Sep 13, 2019 | Ideas

Droidcon Lisbon 2019: An Overview Want to Learn About Shockoe? This week, I attended a Droidcon event in Lisbon, Portugal. The conference itself was at the University of Lisbon, known at this time of year for bright sunshine, mild temperatures, and a unique initiation...

Scaling a Push Notification Server

Aug 1, 2018 | Ideas

Scaling a Push Notification Server Previously we explored the topic of setting up a sandbox push notification server in Node.js. This featured a Mongodb instance to store users and device IDs, as well as endpoints to register users and send them the push notifications...